quoits
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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There were games of deck quoits and bridge.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2014
Enthusiastic cameramen, having pictured the Governor golfing, wished him to pose clutching a tennis racquet, bestriding a horse, pitching quoits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile last week the Metropolitan pitched débuts like quoits, one or more every night: Rose Bampton, a comely, full-voiced contralto from Buffalo, sang Laura in La Gioconda on the company's first Tuesday-night trip to Philadelphia.
From Time Magazine Archive
In their pubs, Britons can play darts, quoits, cards, dominoes, skittles, shove ha'penny.
From Time Magazine Archive
They used to play quoits in the road with four big steel washers they’d found in a hardware store but these were gone with everything else.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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